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Cicinho lifts lid on life at Real Madrid – he HATED it!

Cicinho – deeply unhappy

Many players probably sit around drawing pictures of themselves in crayon wearing a shiny Real Madrid blouse and hotpants, dreaming of one day turning out at the Bernabeu, but if Cicinho’s latest grumblings are anything to go by, you’d be better off getting all Hieronymus Bosch about it by simply painting Hell. Apparently the place is a bloody nightmare. Or, in the Brazilian’s words, it’s “despicable”.

As reported on the popular Spanish website ES.com, the Brazilian right back – now lording it up in Sao Paulo - moans that behind the scenes, Real Madrid is not quite as you’d expect. It’s bitchy. Everyone sits around the dressing room in little cliques, whispering to one another, slagging off Fat Ronaldo.

Of his time at the club, between 2005 and 2007, Cicinho talks of ”gangs” of unwelcoming Spanish players, whilst saving most of his vitriol for the local hero, Raul:

“He has privileges at the club. The problem is that what happens in the dressing room is then communicated to the press.”

The word from Sao Paulo being that it was actually Raul who – acting as this direct link between the dressing room and the media – alerted the press to the original Ronaldo’s rather fluctuating weight-gain issues. Although a hunch suggests that those may still have been spotted during the shirt swapping ritual at the end of each match.

“… if Ronaldo did something, there was Raul, saying: “Ronaldo can not play because he’s fat.”"

Cicinho, it sounds awful.

• Cicinho
• Raul
• Real Madrid
• Ronaldo
• Sao Paulo